Mobility and networks
In landscapes with difficult and unstable environmental conditions, mobility often plays a vital role. Despite its topographic diversity and variety of ecological niches (for example the oases of the central …
Daily life and institution
Current understandings in the social sciences regard not only political, religious, economic or military establishments as institutions, but also kinship units and some forms of short-term cooperation anchored in daily …
Landscapes and raw material regimes
The Iranian Highlands are being examined in a diachronic manner and in its diversity and are being analysed according to their effects on economic and social practices. Which highland-specific resource …
Resilience
The term Resilience, originally from the field of material physics, is used in various disciplines (systems ecology, psychology, environmental studies, sustainability; political economy, etc.). In research, there is a controversial …